The Future Fire #36

This is one of the darker issues of The Future Fire that we’ve seen in a while. It’s not full of horror stories, but rather of tales of gritty determination, of dystopian resilience, of unfulfilled (but never hopeless) longing. We don’t bring you happy endings—too few of those around these days—but we bring you noir heroes who survive, desperate rebels who haven’t lost everything yet, and aliens who still have a head or two to regrow. Stories (or poems) with genderqueer, retro-cyberpunk social justice warriors; brightly lit skies that ask us what is the cost of the future; trippy twists on the memory loss narrative motif; postmodern, polyglot, alien futures; and brutal, low fantasy, classic fairy tales.